When's the Last Time Your Temple Was Cleansed

# 611 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 11:11 And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.

Jesus decides to go to the temple in Jerusalem. He looks around and takes in all the abuses. The moneychangers are at it again! If you recall, at the beginning of His ministry He had cleansed this very same temple. Joh 2:14-16 tells us: “And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!"

Well, guess what? They're baaaack.. Jesus cleansed our personal temples when we were baptized. If He were to examine your temple today, what would He find? What have you allowed back in to your temple? What are those things that you have quietly accepted as business as usual, but God regards as sin?

Friend, today, right now, take the time to embrace 1 Jn 1:9 and freshen up your temple. 1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Father we take the time to cleanse the outside of our body, help us to make our inner cleansing a top priority through confession of our sins, daily repentance, and receiving Your promised absolution.